Apparatus for treating and measuring intestines.



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Patented July 12,1910.

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APPARATUS FOR TREATING AND MEASURING INTESTINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 12, 1910.

Application filed October 10, 1908. Serial No. 457,135.

' a subject of the German Emperor, residing at Breslau, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Treating and Measuring In-.

testines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning, scouring or similarly treating intestines, and for enabling ready measurement of the same.

According to this invention the intestine is drawn over an expansible body, whose distention is brought about by means of liquid or air pressure.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and part elevation of one form of the apparatus, in which the distensible body is inflated by air pressure. Fig. 2 is a like view of a modification, in which water is employed as distending agent. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view of parts to be hereinafter referred to.

Referring to Fig. 1, there is fitted into the one end of a pipe 0 a perforated connectingpiece 5, to which there is secured a flexible air tube 0, furnished with a cock 0? and a mouthpiece e. The other end of the pipe a presents a nipple f, to which there is bound the one extremity of the expansible body g, whose other end is similarly tied to a stopple h. The body 9 is preferably of cylindrical shape and may be of rubber or other tightly fitting material.

Assume now that the cock (1 having been opened, the expansible body g is emptied of its air by pressing it with the hand, so that it possesses the form shown in Fig. 3. A sliding pipe 2', of somewhat greater length than the body 9, and which in Fig. 1 is shown as having been pushed over the pipe a, is now slid toward the left, until it butts against the stopple h, and thus envelops the body 9 (Fig. 3). Hereupon the intestine is drawn over the stopple h and sliding pipe The flange 2' of the pipe 2' is then grasped with the one hand, and the stopple h and intestine end seized with the other hand, and the pipe i again pulled toward the right and thus withdrawn from the body 9 and slid over the pipe a (Fig. 1). In this position of the parts the expansible body 9 is covered by the end portion of the intestine. Air is now blown into the interior of the body 9 through the mouthpiece 6, tube 0, connecting-piece Z) and pipe a, until the body 9 and the intestine enveloping it are sufficiently inflated, whereupon the cock d is closed. The intestine is now gradually drawn toward the left, from the pipe 2' over the body 9, and at the same time cleansed of adhering fat, etc., for example by being scraped with a suitable comb. The comb should preferably have its teeth located very closely together, so as to prevent particles of fat from eluding the comb and also to avoid injury to the intestine. The diameter of the expansible body can be regulated correspondingly with the diameter of the intestine by blowing more air into it or by letting air escape from it.

If the apparatus is to be employed solely for cleansing the intestines, measurement of the latter being unnecessary, the procedure can be simplified, if desired, the expansible body being only distended so far as still allows of the narrowest part of the intestine being drawn over it. In this case the wider portions of the intestine will not fit tightly to the distensible body, but this is obviously of no import when it is merely a matter of cleaning the intestine.

Referring now to the modification shown in Fig. 2, the connecting-piece b joins the pipe a not with a tube 0 as in Fig. 1, but with an upright glass pipe or vessel is, which is filled with water and may be secured to, for instance,'a board m, or a stand, wall, or the like, 6. g. by means of saddles Z. At the top of the vessel is there is a cock al The pipe (1, shown in Fig. 2, is flexible and through it there is passed a rod n of Spanish reed or like pliable material, whose one extremity butts against the back wall of the connectingpiece 6 while the other extremity fits into the stopple h.

To use this modified form of the apparatus the horizontal, left hand, portion must first be elevated, in the manner of a siphon barometer, (as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2), so that it stands substantially parallel with the vessel is. In accordance with the law of communicating pipes, the water, on the cock d being opened, will flow back out of the expansible body 9 into the vessel 7: and will cause the water level in the latter to rise. The cock al is then closed again and the left hand portion of the apparatus restored to its horizontal position and the intestine thereupon brought over the emptied expansible body g, onto the pipe a. If the cock (Z is now opened again the external air pressure will act and will depress the water level again, whereupon the body 9 will be distended as far as the intestine enveloping it admits. The intestine can now be cleansed in the manner already described, the intestine being gradually drawn over the body 9 as before.

The diameter of the body 9, it is obvious, will always adjust itself automatically to the diameter of the intestine, the water level in the glass pipe 70 changing correspondingly. If, therefore, the glass pipe 70 is graduated, the water level for the time being constitutes a measure of the diameter of the piece of intestine which at the time covers the body g.

Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. An apparatus for treating intestines, comprising a distensible body adapted to support the intestine, and means for introducing an agent into the said body for the purpose of expanding it and thus distending the intestine enveloping it, substantially as described. v

2. An apparatus for treating intestines, comprising an upright, valved, liquid receptacle, and a distensible body communicating therewith and adapted to support the intestine and capable of being brought into a position substantially parallel with said receptacle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERMANN EBERHARDT.

WVitnesses SIEGFRIED LUSTIG, ERNST KATZ. 

